\u201cDetectives from the homicide and major inquiry team are investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attempted rape<\/p>\n
Watkins, 48, was jailed in December 2013 for 29 years after admitting to a string of sex offences – including the attempted rape of a fan\u2019s baby.<\/p>\n
The disgraced musician was caught in 2012 after the execution of a drugs warrant at his home in Pontypridd, Wales, where a large number of computers, mobile phones and storage devices were seized by police.<\/p>\n
Analysis of the equipment revealed Watkins\u2019 depraved behaviour.<\/p>\n
The Welsh singer had previously been stabbed at the same prison in 2023 and suffered non-life-threatening injuries after reportedly being taken hostage by three other inmates for six hours.<\/p>\n
Watkins\u2019 attacker is thought to have slashed his jugular in the latest attack, causing the singer to die from blood loss.<\/p>\n
\u2018Brutal, shocking\u2019<\/p>\n
A source told the Sun that \u201cWatkins has been killed in the most brutal way possible – and the attack was shocking, even by prison standards.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was targeted by another inmate who shanked him in the neck.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuards were nearby and raced to the scene pretty quickly – but there was nothing they could do, and they could not save him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a horrific scene, with blood everywhere and alarms and sirens going off.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice and ambulances were called and the whole prison was locked down with all cons confined to their cells.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDetectives from the homicide and major inquiry team are investigating.\u201d Attempted rape Watkins, 48, was jailed in December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,1558,690,156,2740,57505,3375,57504,111,139,69,8442,4625,15163,57507,57506],"class_list":{"0":"post-73138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-been","10":"tag-dead","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-former","13":"tag-ian","14":"tag-killed","15":"tag-lostprophets","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-prison","20":"tag-singer","21":"tag-stabbing","22":"tag-wakefield","23":"tag-watkins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}